Posted on 07/30/2013 1:20:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama’s latest critique of the Keystone XL oil pipeline still leaves a path for approving the project — but its supporters may need to make concessions to blunt its impact on the climate, analysts said Monday.
Obama’s remarks to The New York Times echoed some of the most potent criticisms offered by Keystone’s opponents, scoffing at GOP claims about job creation and warning that the pipeline might even raise gasoline prices. He also said Canada “could potentially be doing more” to counteract the greenhouse gas emissions being unleashed from Alberta’s oil sands, the major reason for climate activists’ outrage at the pipeline.
Concessions by Canada could include an effort to capture and store the carbon dioxide generated by drilling in the oil sands, former White House environmental aide Elliot Diringer said Monday.
“That could be a signal that the administration would welcome a concrete plan from the Canadians about how to reduce the carbon intensity of the oil sands crude,” said Diringer, executive vice president of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. He said Obama’s comments, published Saturday in the Times, “Almost sounded like an invitation to the Canadians to offer concrete commitments to make their oil no more carbon-intensive than conventional crude, like he was asking the Canadians to help him find his way to yes.”
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Via a new pipeline to Kitimat and then by tanker to China and other Asian markets. An underused gas pipeline in Eastern Canada is being touted as an alternative route to Saint John, New Brunswick.
Besides losing an additional 650,000 b/d and thousands of jobs, American national security is reduced if this pipeline is blocked.
Personally, I think Obie is going to nix this project. Transcanada better get busy on alternatives.
In case Obie is wondering about all this "global warming" crap. If Canada disappeared tomorrow the resulting decrease in "global warming", if any, could not be measured.
I know there’s the Warren Buffett theory, the Saudi theory, etc., but at the heart of 0bama’s childish vindictiveness is that 0bama wants to deny Texas of the economic benefit from XL.
This is wishful thinking. He will never say yes. Only to himself and his own ideas.
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